My Darling Clementine (1946)
Directed by John Ford
Three brothers stop off for a night in the town of Tombstone. The next morning they find one of their brothers dead and their cattle stolen. They decide to take revenge on the culprits.
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His new film utilizes Western imagery (one shot of Bridges deliberately evokes Henry Fonda’s famous porch lean from My Darling Clementine ) but it still feels fresh and contemporary.
QT stalwart Tim Roth returns to play the hangman Oswaldo Mobray, a reference to character actor Alan Mowbray, whose Shakespearean recital in My Darling Clementine never fails to elicit applause.
These represent major plusses for the new film, as screen newcomer Hailee Steinfeld makes an excellent Mattie and Matt Damon, from the moment of his laconic boots-on-a-porch rail entrance designed to recall Henry Fonda in “My Darling Clementine,” puts any thoughts of Glen Campbell immediately to rest.
I am five years older than Walter Brennan was when he played Old Man Clanton in My Darling Clementine, and John Wayne was when he starred in Rio Bravo.
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The signature jokes revolve around Huckleberry Hound and "My Darling Clementine."
Joel (Jim Carrey) meets Clementine (Kate Winslet) at Montauk in the winter; he's never heard "My Darling Clementine."
The one thing you can't fault about it is the filmmaking--Anderson continues to bring his 'A' game in a directorial capacity, and indeed some of this footage (like the My Darling Clementine shot of Daniel lounging on a porch) proved indispensable enough to find a home in the finished film regardless.
And though Holt is the most often ignored of the three leads (too many dismiss him out of hand as a B-movie staple), in watching a scene where he struggles with whether or not to save a partner from a cave-in one is reminded that Holt spent time in films like My Darling Clementine and The Magnificent Ambersons.